Events
Featured Event
Vocal Technique for Changing Voices
November 17th, 5:30 p.m. PST
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Upcoming Events
17
November
Fall Online Workshop Series Continues
Vocal Technique for Changing Voices
Topic #2 of Fall 2025 Workshop Series
Mondays, Nov. 17, 24, Dec. 1 – 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., PST
This 3-part series will look at the history and practice of training young and changing voices with the goal of inspiring the next generation of singers and teachers to uphold tradition and inspire innovation going forward. The sessions will offer practical applications to voice building within the perspective of the history of chorister training. Dr. Geoffrey Williams began his musical career as a treble in The American Boychoir and has great experience working at all levels of sacred music making at Westminster Choir College, Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, Washington National Cathedral, Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, and at the University of Illinois before becoming Assistant Professor of Church Music and Director of Chapel at Nashotah House Theological Seminary.
Session 1: Looking back
Session 2: Where we are
Session 3: Looking forward
Instructor: Dr. Geoffrey D. Williams
Live via Zoom
5:30–6:30 P.M. PST
22
November
Jornada de Estudio de Música Sacra
¿Ya te registraste? Revisa tu correo electrónico o comunícate con el coordinador de tu parroquia para obtener más información.
El registro comienza a las 7:30 a. m.
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. PST, Registration starts 7:30 A.m.
6
December
St. Nicholas Day – Chorister Investiture
Choristers of the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music
Join us at St. Patrick’s Seminary to celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas as Choristers in CISM’s Chorister Program receive their earned certificates and medals.
10 a.m. PST
14
December
Very Marian Advent Prayer Service
Join the Benedict XVI Institute as they celebrate Our Lady’s role in the Advent season with a lessons and carols service at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. The service features 6 newly-commissioned works, featuring text and music collaborations between Frank La Rocca and James Matthew Wilson, Fr. Dwight Longenecker and William J. Fritz, Mark Nowakowski, and Mina Pariseau and Roseanne Sullivan. The choir for the service will be directed by Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka.
4:00 P.M. PST
17
January
Setting the Words of the Mass to Music in the Secular Environment of our Time: a Catholic Composer’s Experience
Sir James MacMillan – Lecture
4th Annual Public Lecture and Concert Series
Date: Saturday, January 17th
Time: 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern)
Location: Online via Zoom
Tickets: Free, or suggested donation of $20
Join Sir James MacMillan and the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music for this lecture online, and have an opportunity to pose your questions to Sir James.
Space in the online event is limited; an RSVP is required.
10:00 A.M. PST
26
January
Spring Online Workshop Series Begins
The Requiem through the Ages
Topic #1 of Spring 2026 Workshop Series
Mondays, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9 – 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., PST
Series description forthcoming
Instructor: Dr. Erick Arenas
Live via Zoom
5:30–6:30 P.M. PST
30-31
January, 2026
Oregon Sacred Music Colloquium
This year’s Oregon Sacred Music Colloquium at Mt. Angel Abbey will focus on liturgical music as prayer and the pride of place that Gregorian Chant occupies in the sacred liturgy. Opportunities include Gregorian Chant workshops, private voice instruction, and lectures with Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka. During the Colloquium participants will be preparing liturgical music for a Pontifical High Mass, joining their voices in prayer and song.
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday
6-7
February, 2026
Deus in Adjutorium Meum Intende: Singing the Divine Office throughout the Church’s Charisms
The Catholic Institute of Sacred Music gathers scholars and practitioners for this online conference.
Presenters include:
- Fr. Mark Bachmann, O.S.B. (Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey)
- Fr. Chrysostom Baer, O.Praem. (St. Michael’s Abbey)
- Prof. Christopher Berry (Catholic Institute of Sacred Music)
- Abbot Marc Crilly, O.S.B. (St. Benedict Abbey)
- Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka (Catholic Institute of Sacred Music)
- Dr. Nina Heereman (St. Patrick’s Seminary)
- Dr. Anthony Lilles (St. Patrick’s Seminary)
- Fr. Dennis McManus (St. Patrick’s Seminary)
- Fr. Robert Pasley (Church Music Association of America)
- Dr. Richard Skirpan (St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Harrisburg, PA)
- Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. (University of Notre Dame)
More information on registration and topics is forthcoming.
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday
9
February
Continuing Education for CISM Graduate Students
5-Part Series
Past and current CISM graduate students are invited to participate in this live, Zoom-based series. Sessions are only available live; no archived access is available.
Mondays, February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9 – 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., PST
- Monday, Feb. 9 – Launching an Organ Building Campaign – with Prof. Christopher Berry
- Monday, Feb. 16 – Nutrition, Sleep, Sickness-avoidance, and Spiritual Habits for Church Musicians – Panel Discussion
- Monday, Feb. 23 – Building a Tenebrae Service in Your Parish – with Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka & Prof. Christopher Berry
- Monday, March 2 – Lenten Retreat – Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
- Monday, March 9 – Ward Method Check-up – with Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka
Topic descriptions forthcoming
Live via Zoom